Back to the Table
Today1925Rockets comes from a long tradition of making classic games worth gathering around. It began with a Chicago printer, a bingo card and a sliding red shutter in 1941. Seventy years later, the same family is putting a new deck on the table.
From Bingo Cards to Blast Off
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Rockets lifts off
Rockets brings the glamour of the 1920s to the card table: bold design, premium 310 GSM paper and a signature soft-grip linen finish. Familiar in all the right ways, and far from ordinary.
- 2025
Phones down. Pull up a chair.
Tables get quieter and screens get louder. The Regal family sets out to make a deck that gives people a reason to look up and play.
- 2020s
Still family. Still Chicago.
Seventy years on, Regal is family owned and still making dominoes, bingo, wood games, travel games, educational games and dice games with old-world craftsmanship.
- 2011
A new chapter
Michael Roberts buys a controlling interest in Regal Games and later brings in Rocket USA, the Illinois maker of retro tin toys, whose Whirl-O top spins back to life on Kickstarter in 2015.
- 50+ games
A life spent inventing
Erich introduces more than fifty games in his lifetime. His last, the Easy Read Finger-Tip Bingo Card, is made so the seniors at his assisted living center can see the numbers.
- 1957
Bingo hits the road
Auto Bingo, which Erich jokes is the first radar detector, Traffic Safety Bingo to teach his daughter the road signs, and the Travel Bingo Assortment turn long drives into games.
- 1941
The sliding shutter window
Regal files the patent for a bingo card with a red sliding shutter over every number. It is an immediate success, and bingo never looks the same again.
- 1940
The night the chips slid off
Playing bingo, Erich watches the chips slide off their numbers one too many times and starts sketching a better card.
- Late 1930s
A banker buys a print shop
Erich Spitzner, a German immigrant working at a Chicago bank, takes over the struggling Regal Printing Company and turns it into Regal Games.
Good Games, Better People
Turn a card over.
Good games
Rules you can learn in a hand or two, and decks that feel right the moment you shuffle.
Better people
A table is where stories get told, rivalries get settled and someone always deals one more.
Made well
Premium paper, a linen finish and design details worth a second look. Nothing reinvented, everything done properly.
Because some things don’t need reinventing.
They just deserve to be made well.
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